It was wheeling and dealing Rockets-style on draft night. It didn’t take long for the Rockets to say au revoir to their first round draft pick from France. Just a short time after taking the 19-year-old small forward with the No. 25 selection in Thursday’s NBA draft, the Rockets completed a pair of deals that […]
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OK, we’ve all seen the list of the players recently taken with the 25th pick in the draft in recent years. Do the names Shannon Brown, Johan Petro and Jake Tsakalidis rock your world? How about Al Harrington? So the hours and minutes will tick down, and the Rockets will consider all of the options […]
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“Anything’s possible!” That’s what Kevin Garnett shouted into the ABC microphone just seconds after the Celtics thumped the Lakers. Anything’s possible. That’s what you have to believe when a team the finished with the second-worst record in the league a year ago winds up holding the NBA championship trophy 12 months later. Anything’s possible. Last […]
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You can make the argument that the Lakers were just a tad late in finding a way to not squander all of a whopping first half lead in the NBA Finals. Had Kobe and his buddies figured that out in Game 4, instead of an historic collapse that put them in this almost-impossible situation, they […]
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They still have the building reserved back in Boston for Tuesday and Thursday. You know, for the asterisk. Game 6 and Game 7* — if necessary. The Celtics can do their part to save jet fuel for the entire NBA traveling contingent by wrapping up their 17th championship on Sunday. Of course, it is likely […]
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Nothing like a win in the NBA to put a strut back into a team. Oh, except the Lakers are still limping. Not from an injury. But from an ailing offense that is still searching desperately to get significant contributions from Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom. The Lakers survived in Game 3 and have a […]
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You can have your Yankees-Red Sox, Cowboys-Redskins, Clinton-Obama. I’ll take Celtics-Lakers eight days a week as the best rivalry in American professional sports. It’s Bird vs. Magic. Need we say more? OK, it’s West vs. Havlicek for grit and determination. It’s Cousy vs. Baylor for indescribable moves. It’s Russell vs. Chamberlain for giants who walked […]
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For just about the entire first quarter and most of the first half, he was The Facilitator. Then he shifted his offense a bit more into gear in the second half, but mainly as a jump shooter. After an MVP season and three rounds of the playoffs where he’s been the white-hot sun at the […]
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This time last year, there wasn’t a talk radio show in the nation where Kobe Bryant hadn’t cuddled up to the microphone and threatened to blow up the Lakers’ house. He thought GM Mitch Kupchak was a chump and owner Jerry Buss was an idiot. Or was it the other way around? Kobe wanted out, […]
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Plenty of time still for jumping head-first into the vat of nostalgia about Celtics vs. Lakers. Plenty of time to reminisce about Bird and Magic, about East Coast vs. West Coast, about the old Boston Garden leprechaun and Showtime. Before Boston and LA tip off Game 1 on Thursday night, it’s time to give the […]
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